A graduate student in physics at UH, Clarina dela Cruz, captured first prize for her award-winning research in solid state physics that may one day provide faster, more efficient access to data, music and movies in such hand-held devices as MP3 players and cellular phones. Here, she is flanked (from left to right) by her mentors Bernd Lorenz, research associate professor with the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston (TcSUH), and Paul C.W. Chu, the TLL Temple Chair of Science, physics professor and founding director of TcSUH.